Here.
Profile of Aaron Payment — Sault Tribe Chair
Here.
Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians
Sault Tribe Appellate Judge Posting
REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS
The Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians seeks qualified licensed attorneys for the position of Reserve Appellate Judge in the Sault Ste. Marie Chippewa Tribal Appellate Court.
The Appellate Court meets monthly. Oral argument is held in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan.
Appeals filed vary from year to year, but typically can be anywhere from 1 – 4 per year.
These positions are paid at the rate of $150 per hour with a maximum billing of $5,000 per year.
Qualifications for Licensed Attorney positions include:
- Must be a member in good standing with a State Bar.
- Preference will be given to those who are members of the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians.
To further be considered for these positions, Applicants should be able to demonstrate that they have:
- Substantial education and experience working with Tribal, State and Federal law
- Extensive knowledge in civil, juvenile, criminal and child welfare proceedings
- Knowledge and understanding of the history and traditions of the Sault Tribe
A letter of interest, resume, and application should be submitted to:
Sault Ste. Marie Chippewa Tribal Court
2175 Shunk Road
P.O. Box 932 or via email to tswan@saulttribe.net
Sault Ste. Marie, MI 49783
Attn: Court Administrator
Applications can be picked up at the Sault Ste. Marie Chippewa Tribal Court or found at www.saulttribe.com, in the download section of Tribal Court’s webpage under the Government tab. A copy of Tribal Code is also available to view at www.saulttribe.com.
For more information, please contact the Court Administrator’s office at 906.635.7747, or via email at tswan@saulttribe.net.
he deadline to submit an application is November 30, 2012.
Update in Sault Tribe Lansing Casino Proposal — Update to the Update
The City transferred the land to the Sault Tribe (here). Nothing all that terribly exciting — a chance to show off before the cameras.
In anticipation of today’s 11AM press conference at the Lansing Center (Casino Project Moves Forward – ADVISORY), casino opponents have issued the following preemptive comments:
Attribute the following statement to James Nye, coalition spokesman, for the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe and Nottawaseppi Huron Band of Potawatomi:
“For over a decade, the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe has unsuccessfully pursued off-reservation casinos hundreds of miles from its reservation. These efforts have been rejected by the U.S. Congress, the State of Michigan, and the U.S. Department of Interior.
“People should not be fooled; this latest effort to build a casino in Lansing is just another loser. The Sault Tribe has argued that under the Michigan Indian Land Claims Settlement Act it can build a casino anywhere in the United States. That conflicts with federal law, and it violates the Tribe’s state gaming compact.
“We will continue to aggressively fight this ill-conceived casino at the federal and state level, and in the courts. We are very confident that this effort will fail just like the Tribe’s past efforts.”
MLive on the Bay Mills Vanderbilt Casino Case & Proposed Lansing Casino
Here.
An excerpt:
Bay Mills has a reservation located on tribal land in the Upper Peninsula’s Chippewa County on the eastern end of Lake Superior.
In 2010, the tribe used earnings from a land settlement trust to purchase 40 acres of land in Vanderbilt, a tiny town just north of Gaylord that’s located more than 100 miles south of the tribe’s main reservation.
The Michigan Indian Land Claims Settlement Act says that land acquired with funds from a land trust “shall be held as Indian lands are held.” So Bay Mills used that language as legal authority to open a small casino in November 2010 in Vanderbilt. Continue reading
Update in In re Greektown Holdings
Creditors fighting over the carcass:
Michigan AG Letter to Interior Expressing Opposition to Sault Tribe Casino Proposal
Sault Tribe Membership Approves Lansing Casino Proposal
Here.
An excerpt:
The Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians voted 3,947 to 2,311, or 63 percent to 37 percent, throughout the past month on plans for the Kewadin Lansing casino, which the tribe would own and operate adjacent to the Lansing Center. Voting was conducted by mailed ballots and closed Thursday, when results were tallied.
IPR on Pending Sault Tribe Vote over Lansing Casino Proposal
Here.
Lansing Casino Proposal Investors Named
Here, via Pechanga.
From the article:
Early on in the meeting, Lansing City Council President Brian Jeffries asked City Attorney Brig Smith for more information regarding the investors in Lansing Future LLC, the developer contracted by the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians to finance the casino.
“I have an issue in terms of knowing who the developer is,” Jeffries said.
Smith then introduced Bill Martines, managing director of Lansing Future LLC, who assured the committee that his group wasn’t intentionally trying to cloak itself in secrecy, and listed every investor in Lansing Future.
Besides Martines, president of All Day Interactive, the other investors in the group are Jerry Campbell, CEO of HomeBancorp; Robert Liggett, Jr., owner of the Big Boy Restaurant chain; John Krasula of Decision Consultants; Winfield Cooper, a Flint-based commercial mortgage broker; Mike Garavaglia, a special counsel to Mortgage Investors Corp., and The Sovereignty Group, comprised of Lansing-based lawyer Richard McLellan and Bill Cross Jr.
McLellan joined The Sovereignty Group two weeks ago, after telling media he was not involved in Lansing Future or the casino project. He was not involved in the group until after he made the comments, he said.
WLNS: Gov. Snyder/AG Schuette Opposes Lansing Casino Proposal
Here.
And here’s the letter:
An excerpt:
Governor Rick Snyder and Attorney General Bill Schuette put their opposition of the proposed Lansing casino in writing Monday. Their letter was addressed to the chairman of the Sault Saint Marie tribe of Chippewa Indians.
For the casino to even become a reality in the first place it needs to be approved by the federal government. The tribe has to ask the U.S. Department of Interior to take the land into trust and make it tribal land, then it would be eligible for gaming.
One issue facing the proposal to build a casino in Lansing is the fact that there are already 3 off-reservation casinos in the state.
The final decision would come from the federal government, but one expert says the opposition from state leaders could make this all a bit more difficult.
“The governor role I think can potentially be huge in that politics is everything when it comes to off reservation gaming,” said Matthew Fletcher, director of the Indigenous Law and Policy Center at MSU.
The letter made public from the governor and attorney general to the Sault St. Marie Chippewa Indian tribe has Fletcher a bit surprised.
“That’s pretty tough…tough talk,” said Fletcher.
In the letter it flatly says they oppose the opening of the casino.
“If this was a different world and the Governor supported this, it would put pressure on the Department of Interior to act quicker. It would make the other tribes back down,” said Fletcher.
Fletcher says the Department of Interior will listen closely to what the governor has to say and his opposition could cause a great delay in moving forward.
“This is a chunk of land that is right in the heart of the state’s capital and certainly the state is going to have say in what happens when that land completely leaves the state’s jurisdiction,” said Fletcher.
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